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(The reasons why an I&IC’s) OwnCloud Core Processing Library

By Thursday, February 12, 2015 Cookbooks, Interaction Design, Projects, Sciences & Technology, X-Posts Tags: 0096, B, Clouds, Code, Engineering, fabric | ch, Library, Open source, Programming, Tools Permalink 0

Beside the reflection produced by the overall Inhabiting & Interfacing the Cloud(s) project and the related necessity to provide “access to tools” to a larger community (largely described in the founding document of the project and in a former post about the setting up of this library), new paradigms may arise in the global organization of servers farms. These new paradigms may in return generate new ways to organize files on cloud servers (by a different control of the redundancy principle for example, or a different use of file’s duplication, etc.), allowing for new projects.

In order to answer the stakes of the I&IC design research and to prepare such output/proposals, we have developed the OwnCloud Core Processing Library that will allow to setup a software layer on top of the hardware layer.

 

To download and learn how to use the OwnCloud Core Processing Library, we’ve prepared a post in the Cook Books section of this site.

 

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Cookbook > How to set up Processing to use the OwnCloud Core Processing Library

By Thursday, February 12, 2015 Cookbooks, Interaction Design, Sciences & Technology, X-Posts Tags: 0095, B, Code, Data, Engineering, fabric | ch, Library, Makers, Open source, Programming, Tools Permalink 1

We will describe how to use the OwnCloud Core Processing Library within the Processing framework, starting from a blank sketch. Library’s functions will be refined and new ones may be developped, some additional libraries will be added as well in order to propose high level functions deeper linked to the IICloud(s) project.

 

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Cookbook > Setting up your personal Linux & OwnCloud server

By Wednesday, December 10, 2014 Cookbooks, Resources, Sciences & Technology, X-Posts Tags: 0080, C, Clouds, Data, Datacenter, Domestic, Hardware, Infrastructure, Open source, Operating system, Personal, Software, Tools Permalink 0

Note: would you like to install your personal open source cloud infrastructure, maintain it, manage your data by yourself and possibly develop artifacts upon it, like we needed to do in the frame of this project? If the answer is yes, then here comes below the step by step recipe on how to do it. The proposed software for Cloud-like operations, ownCloud, has been chosen among different ones. We explained our (interdisciplinary) choice in this post, commented here. It is an open source system with a wide community of developers (but no designers yet).

We plan to publish later some additional Processing libraries — in connection with this open source software — that will follow one of our research project’s objectives to help gain access to (cloud based) tools.

Would you then also like to “hide” your server in a traditional 19″ Cabinet (in your everyday physical or networked vicinity)? Here is a post that details this operation and what to possibly “learn” from it –”lessons” that will become useful when it will come to possible cabinet alternatives–.

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Cookbook > Basic instructions to set up a Raspberry Pi

By Monday, November 17, 2014 Cookbooks, Interaction Design, Schools, Workshops Tags: 0071, ECAL, Hardware, Links, Open source, Teaching, Tools Permalink 0

In the context of the workshop being held by Matthew Plummer-Fernandez this week at ECAL, Raspberry Pi’s will be available to students.

The Pi’s have already been set up with a basic layer of software / harware, the OS installed is Raspbian (on 8Gb SD’s for the Raspberry Pi B and 16Gb SDxC for the Raspberry Pi B+), the keyboard system is standard International Mac US and the wifi-dongle enables to access the Pi via SSH from another machine. Here’s how we did it from scratch:

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Occupy.Here: build a local darknet

By Thursday, October 16, 2014 Society Tags: 0048, City, Infrastructure, Makers, Mobility, Open source, Sociology Permalink 0
Occupy-Here

This system isn’t connected to the cloud. Instead, the users represent a cloud of points and this local mobile network links them together. It’s a LAN party without the cables. Anyone within range of an Occupy.here wifi router, with a web-capable smartphone or laptop, can join the network “OCCUPY.HERE,” load the locally-hosted website http://occupy.here, and use the message board to connect with other users nearby. The open source forum software offers a simple, mobile-friendly interface where users can share messages and files.

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Via Rhizome

Open Compute Project

By Tuesday, September 23, 2014 Resources, Sciences & Technology, X-Posts Tags: 0033, ABCD, Corporate, Datacenter, Hardware, Infrastructure, Open source, Software Permalink 0

 

 

The Open Compute Project was initiated by Facebook. They decided to fully open the specifications of their data center in Prineville, all specs (from hardware to software, through cabinet and building design, etc.) In this way, Facebook pioneered the open source approach that many major players are now adopting.

 

This resource will undoubtedly serve our project when it will come to think about the infrastructure.

http://www.opencompute.org/

ArkOS

By Saturday, September 20, 2014 Resources, Sciences & Technology Tags: 0032, Activism, Makers, Open source, Operating system, Software Permalink 0

arkos

A software project worth mentioning even so we didn’t have the occasion to test it yet. It looks like it technically follows some points we would like to follow too during our project, even so it is probably to much in its “infancy” (alpha version 0.3.1 at this date) and unstable at this stage for us to use.

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